Meta recently made a 1 character change to their codebase which saves the equivalent of ~15,000 servers in capacity per year 🤯

future humans will probably think it’s hilarious that we were ever allowed to drive 4,000 pound steel machines 80 mph within feet of eachother daily

Guy who spray-paints hammers and sickles on Priuses

Yeah, so here's why the Constitution doesn't allow the state to round up Americans and send them to be tortured in a foreign gulag because they lit cars on fire: 1) The 14th amendment means the state can't strip you of citizenship - whether naturalized (the case you cite) or

being able to ask any question i can think of with zero judgement has genuinely helped keep my childlike curiosity alive

Bitcoin is a religion - Founder’s body not located (ascended to higher plane of existence) - Promises of bull run heaven (has eschatology) - Has rituals (getting divorced)

Your ancestors are looking down on you with hope.

Democracy is the competition between the political right and left over who can convince the most morons to join their team, so whenever you win you immediately start losing because you have a bunch of morons on your team

This is what makes Taiwan’s nuclear phaseout policy so insane. Nuclear reactors pump out huge volumes of low-carbon electricity and can go years without refueling. Taiwan’s three completed atomic power stations once provided the bulk of its electricity. The ruling Democratic

Best news: this can be a reality for every student, anywhere.

Why have none of Elon Musk’s children (the oldest, Vivian, is 21 and Griffin is 20) done anything notable?

it’s called the metaverse, T. it was supposed to transform the workplace, but instead the AI revolution happened

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Interesting argument; it's also still important to know that no developed economy has average tariffs above ~3% (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…). The tariffs are perhaps the most extreme policy taken in my lifetime (and that includes Covid and the GWOT!). Not sure where this leads...

That was the wildest theater experience of my life. Most of the audience were middle schoolers and they would clap and hoot and holler whenever one of the meme lines was said or when they recognized something from the game. When Jack Black said "Chicken Jockey," the theater

The steelman argument for onshoring is: No, China's competitive advantage is not low-cost labor. So it's not about the implausibility of Americans doing those low-paying shitty jobs. That's 1998. China has moved up the value chain to low-cost fully robotic manufacturing.

10m token context

This is the Salton Sea four years after we decide to stop losing.

An all-time mask slip in this one, if Dems don't call their leadership to account in the next few years they not only lack any real desire to win, they also lack self respect

Thinking about how we found out that the luxury European brands I saw all over high-end Asian airports and malls this week come from China. They only barely call themselves European-made via "finishing touches." I knew that their margins were incredibly fat, but Incredible